I'll Take the Fire by Leila Slimani #joyce Translated from the French by

Translated from the French by Robert Bonnono

concerning father and daughter Alexander and Cass Cleave

It can be sticky

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But as the voyage unfolds

I'll Take the Fire by Leila Slimani #joyce Translated from the French byQ: If your house was burning down, what would you take with you? A: I'd take the fire. This is the story of two sisters, Mia and Ins. Two girls enveloped in love, trapped by the social conventions of Casablanca at the dawn of the twenty first century and silenced by the political 'truths' that envelop their lives. Mia the eldest, a warrior and a pariah, her sexuality a matter of scorn, something to be erased. Ins the youngest, a woman trying to carve